| SB2635 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires owners of vessels that are required to register with the State to obtain vessel insurance. Specifies the types of insurance coverage required. Exempts certain vessels from mandatory insurance requirement. Authorizes the chairperson of the bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2885 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the intent of the small business regulatory review board's power when reviewing state and county administrative rules that impact small businesses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2722 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the offense of obstructing county real property zoning enforcement operations. Makes the offense a class C felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2132 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of health to authorize companies to partner with medical cannabis dispensaries to participate in the manufacture of consumable manufactured cannabis products. Establishes additional requirements and amends existing requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2045 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "employer" in chapter 388, HRS, to include the State and counties when a provision in that chapter has no comparable provision in chapter 78, HRS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2780 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes miscellaneous technical amendments to facilitate library operations. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2054 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the process, including payment obligations, mediation requirements, and triggers for further default, where a condominium unit owner and association reach a payment plan to resolve a nonjudicial foreclosure. Establishes procedures that prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3046 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a special fund to provide the State with self-insurance against the State's property and casualty risks. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2303 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Office of Youth Services to coordinate a two-year Safe Places for Youth Pilot Program in partnership with private organizations to coordinate a network that youth can access for safety and where youth can obtain advice, guidance, program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2123 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to the department of accounting and general services to conduct a study relating to the rehabilitation and renovation of the state capitol reflecting pool.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2959 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a condominium board to borrow money for the installation of equipment for the health and safety of residents in the event of a legislative mandate without the consent of owners where at least twenty percent of owners reside outside of the Unit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2781 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases from $2 to $4 the amount of authorized income tax check-off that may be designated payable from an individual's state income tax refund to the libraries special fund. Permits designation of check-off in the amount of $4 or $8 to the library...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2302 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds as a grant to the Hawaii Youth Services Network's transitional housing program, benefiting homeless youth, to bridge a temporary gap in federal funding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2006 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides interest-free loans to condominium associations to retrofit or install automatic fire sprinklers or sprinkler systems. Appropriates an unspecified sum to the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation for the interest-free loans. Eff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2403 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires licensure for home inspectors in the State. Establishes the board of home inspectors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2841 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds definition for highly intoxicated driver. Establishes evidence and sentencing parameters for highly intoxicated drivers. Establishes minimum and maximum administrative license revocation periods for highly intoxicated drivers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2214 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes transit oriented development districts along transit corridors as a community development district, empowers Hawaii community development authority to develop infrastructure in transit oriented development districts, and allows Hawaii com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB3018 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Judiciary to implement a payment plan program that offers any person who is unable to pay any court-ordered fines, fees, surcharges, costs, or monetary assessments the option of entering into a payment plan. Prohibits the courts from tak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2446 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that a percentage of the Hawaii tourism authority's budget be transferred to the department of land and natural resources and the counties if the number of visitor arrivals in the State exceeds nine million, or if the number of visitor arriv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2226 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires specialized training in early childhood education for all teachers and educational assistants within the Executive Office on Early Learning Public Pre-Kindergarten Program. Effective July 1, 2022. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2043 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the attorney general to condemn parts of Auld Lane, Rawlins Lane, 'Iao Lane, and Akau Lane.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2288 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers to provide employees with written notice of the employee's shift schedule at least ten calendar days before the employee is schedule to work, under certain conditions. Takes effect 1/1/2045. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2772 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies bond requirements for money transmitter licensees. Clarifies the powers of the commissioner of financial institutions relating to money transmitters. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3092 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the office of information practices to resolve all public complaints about noncompliance with chapter 92F and part I of chapter 92 within six months from the date the office of information practices receives the complaint.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2539 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a misdemeanor offense when a child under the care of a licensed child care provider is seriously injured or killed as a result of failure to properly care for the child. Requires that a child care provider's license or temporary permit be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2718 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a bona fide physician-patient or advanced practice registered nurse-patient relationship to be established via telehealth. Adds certain devices that provide safe pulmonary administration to the list of medical cannabis products that may be man...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2372 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to adopt emergency rules if the Board finds that Hawaii's collective bargaining in public employment law, or the application thereof, is inconsistent with any federal or state law and the adoption of an emerg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2590 | Intro
Sine Die | Ensures that state and county planning efforts for the delivery of services to the aged or disabled share budgets, data, insights, strategies, goals, and definitions of success and recommendations. Reforms and improves the timely movement of funding ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2157 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a non-refundable income tax credit of twenty-five per cent of the total costs, including installation costs, of an automatic fire suppression system in any new detached dwelling unit in a structure used only for residential purposes. Appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2818 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends section 329-104(c), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow the Department of Public Safety Narcotics Enforcement Division Administrator to disclose, at his discretion, confidential information from the Electronic Prescription Accountability System,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2684 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies what pedestrians are required to do when in a crosswalk while a countdown timer is operating. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2080 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the number of standardized tests a student shall take in a school year. Requires the board of education to conduct a statewide survey of school administrators and teachers to determine the time spent on preparing for standardized tests and the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2004 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for appropriation to the Department of Transportation to complete the construction and installation of a signalized crosswalk on Vineyard boulevard at River street.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2007 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines specific rights granted to a person who is houseless, including equal access to housing, jobs, and shelters, equal treatment by government agencies, and access to life-sustaining activities and essential services. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2088 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a provider of broadband internet access services to be transparent with network management practices, performance, and commercial terms of its broadband internet access services. Prohibits a provider of broadband internet access services fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB2995 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to upgrade the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement's trucks currently in use in Hawaii county. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2856 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the income tax credit for low-income household renters that may be claimed by qualified taxpayers depending on the taxpayer's status and adjusted gross income. Uses the consumer price index to adjust the amount of tax credit that may be claime...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2454 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the State and its political subdivisions from collecting or using a person's electronic data or metadata by means of a cell site simulator device, except under certain conditions. Prohibits the installation and use of a cell site simulator ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2309 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the earned income tax credit from a nonrefundable tax credit to a refundable tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2042 | Intro
Sine Die | Places school psychologists in bargaining unit (5). Takes effect 1/1/2065. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2741 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds section 707-733(1)(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes, as a covered offense when committed towards a minor, and provides uniformity to the requirements for defendants that are involuntarily hospitalized pursuant to section 706-607, Hawaii Revised Statu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2464 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the offense of exploitative advertising as a misdemeanor. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2502 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to purchase, staff, and operate two mobile clinics to serve the homeless population.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3032 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of storage sheds, equipment sheds, or other structures appropriate to the agricultural activity carried on within leased agricultural lands for residential purposes for any length of time. Repeals the exemption for agricultural land...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2888 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for appropriation funds to the department of transportation to plan, design, and construct the Paia bypass.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2551 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes resisting an order to stop a motor vehicle in the first degree from the list of offenses for which criminal charges may be brought by written information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2388 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows schools to stock auto-injectable epinephrine. Authorizes designated school personnel to provide epinephrine to student for self-administration. Requires training to designated school personnel in the administration of insulin, glucagon, and au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2775 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii health insurance guaranty association, an insurance guaranty fund for Hawaii domestic medical service organizations and health maintenance organizations. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2867 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to establish two permanent full-time fisheries technician IV positions and for operating expenses for the Nuuanu reservoir recreational fishing program at Nuuanu reservoir number four. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3060 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to provide school meals to students at charter schools. Appropriates funds for costs of meals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
